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Socialism & Democracy #75, November, 2017
Capitalism Today: Crisis and Response
Kevin B. Anderson, Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Revolutionary Reflections
Victor Wallis, Capitalism Unhinged: Crisis of Legitimacy in the United States
Hester Eisenstein, Comments on Victor Wallis’s “Capitalism Unhinged”
Gerald Meyer, Immigrant Rights: Repression and Resistance
Carl Grey Martin, Political Seizures: Lenin in 2017
Suren Moodliar (Moderator), The Party: What We Need and How to Get It (Roundtable, with remarks by Kali Akuno, Robert Caldwell, Johanna Fernández, Gerald Meyer, Matt Nelson, and Victor Wallis)
Articles
Emma Bell, Brexit and the Illusion of Democracy
Steve McGiffen, On Brexit and Democracy: Response to Emma Bell
Hamideh Sedghi, Trumpism: The Geopolitics of the United States, the Middle East and Iran
Reza Ghorashi, The Significance of Iran’s 2017 Presidential Election
Evangelis Papadimitropoulos, From the Crisis of Democracy to the Commons
Tom Powell, Korean War Biological Warfare Update
Review Essay
Michael Principe, Debunking a Myth or Distorting the Record? Samuel Farber on Che Guevara
Book Reviews
Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition reviewed by Mat Callahan
Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race reviewed by Steven Delmagori
Sarah D. Wald, The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship and Farming since the Dust Bowl reviewed by Theo Majka
Paul Le Blanc, Left Americana: The Radical Heart of U.S. History reviewed by Paul Buhle
Michael Barker,Under the Mask of Philanthropy reviewed by Joan Roelofs
Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson and Peter N. Funke, eds., The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements reviewed by Peter Seybold
Samir Amin, The Reawakening of the Arab World: Challenges and Change in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring reviewed by Yousef Khalil
Daniel Egan, The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver: Understanding Gramsci’s Military Metaphor reviewed by Joe Cleffie
Robert Roth, Book of Pieces reviewed by Barbara Conn
Film Review
Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel, When Two Worlds Collide reviewed by Gerardo Renique
Notes on Contributors
Category Archives: 66
We Must Resist the “Happy Slave” Mentality in Texas Prisons
Letter from Keith “Malik” Washington, in Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Nov. 2014) Comrades: Prison conditions in Texas are horrible. Now we are delving into the deep nuances of the “Happy Slave” mentality, which is so very pervasive … Continue reading
Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP: Challenging the Punishment Paradigm
By Mujahid Farid and Laura Whitehorn The Crisis: → The number of aging people in New York State prisons is skyrocketing, confining thousands of seniors to cruel and degrading conditions. → The number of incarcerated people ages 50+ in New … Continue reading
Militarism, Mass Surveillance and Mass Incarceration
By Suren Moodliar On the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, activist-scholar Michelle Alexander counseled all of us to “connect the dots,” and speak out about militarism, mass surveillance and mass incarceration. To her list, the Freedom and Unfreedom … Continue reading
Prison Films: An Overview*
By Inez Hedges American film, whether documentary or fiction, has been relatively silent about the enormous prison population in the United States. The groundbreaking documentary was no doubt Frederick Wiseman’s 1967 exposé in Titicut Follies of the shocking conditions in … Continue reading
Racialized Mass Imprisonment: Counterinsurgency and Genocide
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson [Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is Defense Minister of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter (not to be confused with the “New Black Panther Party”). After 20 years in Virginia prisons, he was “interstate compacted” … Continue reading
Deepening the Debate over Mass Incarceration: An Interview
By Angela Y. Davis Why did mass incarceration rise in the US and what are its political uses? What we refer to as mass incarceration reflects the soaring prison population and the prison construction boom that coincided with the rise … Continue reading
Toward the Abolition of the Prison System
By Steve Martinot This article will consider three topics: the existentiality of imprisonment, what the nature of the prison system reveals about the US as a colonialist society, and finally, some aspects of the prison abolition movement and what kinds … Continue reading
Towards a Happy Ending
By Vijay Prashad Hope and Change The jobless men stood Looking out the windows At the machines dying Like living things out there. — Charles Bukowski, “We Ain’t Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain” (1990) Abstractions are important, … Continue reading
Insurgent Intellectsia: Mumia Abu-Jamal in the Age of Mass Incarceration
By Nyle Fort I first heard Mumia’s voice when I took Dr. Mark Taylor’s “Systematic Theology” class my first semester at Princeton Theological Seminary. Mumia was sitting on death row, and had been for nearly 30 years—longer than I’d been … Continue reading
“We Reserve the Right to Resist”: Prison Wars and Black Resistance
By déqui kioni-sadiki & Sekou Odinga “America means prisons,” said Black Nationalist Pan-Africanist leader Malcolm X in a television interview some fifty years ago. It wasn’t about crime he was talking. A similar sentiment was shared by Frederick Douglass less … Continue reading